{"id":1472,"date":"2006-12-05T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2006-12-05T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T14:45:00","slug":"travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Don\u2019t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s Free (to Wear Sunscreen).&#8221;  His original version is addressed to the class of &#8217;97, my high school class, and I downloaded it in college and hang onto it for nostalgic reasons.  It&#8217;s diverting but I certainly don&#8217;t hope the above excerpt comes to pass, especially seeing as how it <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is<\/span> almost 4 p.m. on this (near) idle Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>We finished almost all Luke&#8217;s Christmas shopping on Saturday afternoon and selected a tree as well.  We don&#8217;t yet have many decorations and we&#8217;re letting our collection grow organically without investing in mountains of artificial baubles and trinkets to hang.  We do have a star, though&#8211;a lighted one.  I lifted up Luke and he put it on the &#8220;vewy top,&#8221; much to his delight.  He has an advent calendar, too, with chocolates in it.  He&#8217;s learning lots about delayed gratification; let&#8217;s just say that  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}